Proverbs from Peru

 

 

 

You won't catch trout without wetting your feet.

 

 

 

You go out for wool but come back shorn.

 

 

 

The sleeping lobster is carried away in the stream.

 

 

 

The continuous drip polishes the stone.

 

 

 

Never kill a brooding bird.

 

 

 

Little by little one walks far.

 

 

 

In life the son is scornful of the father, in business the father is of the son.

 

 

 

If i listen i have the advantage, if i speak others have it.

 

 

 

It is better to prevent than to cure.

 

 

 

Envy for a friend is like the taste of a sour pumpkin.

 

 

 

Youth is intoxication without wine; old age, wine without intoxication.

 

 

 

Lawyer for the rich, scourge of the poor.

 

 

 

When the road is long, even slippers feel tight.

 

 

 

The child weeps for it's good and the old man for his ill.

 

 

 

Only he who carries it knows how much the cross weighs.

 

 

 

From the tree of silence hands the fruit of tranquility.

 

 

 

Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.

 

 

 

Gold, when beaten, shines.

 

 

 

Fortune and olives are alike: sometimes a man has an abundance and other times not any.

 

 

 

Favor your own first, then others.